Few things make me happier than a new Mastodon record. One of those things is writing about Mastodon. Which I did. For the fourth time. Here for Beat. And here (and below), for the print edition of Brag.

Growing up, I loved Soundgarden. Like, loved them in the way a fat kid loves candy, or the way a gorilla sometimes loves a kitty. Few bands spoke to a hyperactive little redheaded kid the way the Seattle band’s mix of power and darkness did. For a kid just figuring out how to do ‘brooding’ properly, they were a godsend.

So it was cool that I got to Power Rank each of Superunknown’s songs 20 years later for Fasterlouder. Find it here.